Mercatus Center Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship 2026-2027 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Mercatus Center Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship 2026-2027. The Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship is a one-yr, aggressive fellowship program awarded to graduate college students attending grasp’s, juris doctoral, and doctoral packages in a wide range of fields together with economics, legislation, political science, and public coverage.

The purpose of this fellowship is to introduce college students to the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington faculties of political economic system as educational foundations for up to date coverage evaluation, coverage-related educational analysis, and different utilized matters. Fellows will discover how this framework is utilized for a wide range of matters (together with entrepreneurship, technological innovation, public well being, regulation, immigration, pure disasters and army conflicts, and federal and state fiscal coverage) throughout a collection of colloquia the place they are going to work together with Mercatus students that work on coverage evaluation and coverage-related educational analysis. Fellows will be a part of a community of Mercatus college students, alumni, and students who’re conducting and interesting with leading edge analysis in up to date political economic system.

Benefits

The whole award of up to $5,000 contains: 

• A stipend
• All required readings
• Travel and lodging to attend colloquia hosted by the Mercatus Center

Eligibility

• Any scholar of any nationality enrolled in any diploma-searching for graduate program at any college, within the US or overseas, is eligible to apply for the Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship.
• Applicants ought to give you the option to commit to touring throughout 2 weekends for colloquia in the course of the upcoming educational yr.
• Have an curiosity in public coverage and Mercatus’ strategy to analysis and outreach within the ongoing debates on public coverage.

Application

Complete the web application, together with:

• A 1-2 web page cowl letter explaining:
  • your graduate faculty profession to date,
  • your analysis pursuits and present initiatives,
  • your familiarity with Mercatus students and their analysis, and
  • what you hope to get out of this system.
• A present resume/CV
• A number of quick reply questions

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship.